Word: beneventum
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...onlookers, wildly slapping backs and shouting "Grazie, San Gennaro," a miracle indeed had occurred: the periodic liquefaction of what is believed by many to be the blood of St. Januarius, martyred 4th century Bishop of Beneventum. When Januarius was flung to wild bears in the arena, so the story goes, the animals would not harm him; instead, the bishop was beheaded and his blood was collected by a faithful follower. For centuries the phenomenon of the liquefaction has been observed in Naples at regular intervals: on San Gennaro's feast day (Sept. 19). on the Saturday before the first...
Exuberant in all things, the people of Naples reserve their most pious transports for their patron San Gennaro (St. Januarius), Bishop of Beneventum who was martyred about 305 A. D. In the treasure chapel of Naples Cathedral are a silver bust believed to contain San Gennaro's head, a reliquary holding two vials of what is supposed to be his blood. Last week brought the feast of San Gennaro. Into the Cathedral thronged clergy, civil officials and masses of Neapolitans. On the altar stood the silver bust. Bearing aloft the reliquary an officiant brought it within San Gennaro...
...German School and the German Institute of Athens, for the reproducing of Greek Sculpture. A collection from India representing the life and customs of that country has also been received this summer. An important addition to the statuary is a cast relief from the Arch of Trajar, at Beneventum. This is a cast of the Graeco Roman relief sculpture...
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